Herman Cain's Infamous Smoking Ad

[Initech]

Whenever I see Herman Cain, I always think of this ad. It's still one of the creepiest advertisements I've ever seen.

[unblock]

1. Lol! That's a demo!

That's the version the guy who wrote the ad puts in front of the candidate, saying this is the idea for the ad, except you stand there and say basically what I said.

And Cain said nah, we'll just run your demo.

[Initech]

3. Colbert's parody of that ad was legendary.

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4. ...

[Drunken Irishman]

6. Mike Tyson did one too that was pretty good.

[yellowcanine]

8. Yep he got the creepy smile good!

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. Yep, that was disturbing.

[samsingh]

5. creepy

[yellowcanine]

7. The creepiest part is Cain's smile at the very end imo.

[sandensea]

9. And you know how many years it's been since that ad?

[NurseJackie]

10. Oh dear!

[sandensea]

11. You can't make this stuff up

And Cheeto killed him! (that rally in Tulsa)

[NurseJackie]

12. Stand by... more to come.

That's so mean. I know. But I just don't care any more. The fewer Trump supporters, the better. Nobody brought this on them except for themselves. It's their own fault.

Fuck 'em.

[sandensea]

17. The world really is full of irony

Cheeto, as you know, is openly hoping this pandemic could somehow give him the pretext to steal and/or cancel the elections outright.

But ultimately, it could keep so many older white voters home (for their sake, I hope so), that Biden's margin will probably be that much greater.

Many older white voters are Democrats too, of course - but statistically, their staying home hurts the GOP more. No denying that.

[Initech]

14. Man why can't it be one year from right now?

[klook]

15. I miss the days when we could laugh at "9-9-9"

instead of worrying about 6-6-6.

#

[sandensea]

16. Time flies!

I remember people saying at the time that Cain stumbled on the idea from playing SimCity 4 - which, you'll recall, had 9% default tax rates each on residential, commercial, and industrial activities.

That's Nobel-caliber economics compared to Cheeto though.

[klook]

18. LOL! Didn't know that bit of Cain trivia. smdh

I used to hear him on the radio sometimes when checking the traffic update on WSB radio in Atlanta. He was an affable asshole -- it was easy to see how people could get sucked in by his charm. Underneath it all, though, he was just another greedy anti-labor CEO.

[bronxiteforever]

13. Yikes. Nightmare stuff!